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Summary: Moving!! Colossal!! A Celebration of being Alive!!
Review: The best way to appreciate Whitman is to read him aloud as you walk down a street or the country side.You'd feel electricity stirring within you and all else would change too.Even the inanimate would seeth with life and vitality amidst the gentle choreography of nature.Thats what happens to me when I read "The Song Of the Open Road".It's amazing that Whitman could capture the deep inherent things we feel inside,things that stir us inside out and yet find it difficult to express.A timeless clasic that will stir people from generation to generation.Nothing like it.
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Summary: Copy of the Origional Edition
Review: This book is a copy of the first edition. There is no author's name on the title page, only a picture of him on the facing page. The songs are not titled. Reviews of the first edition are included in the back.
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Summary: American classic in every aspect
Review: This collection of poems proves beyond a doubt that Whitman is one of the greatest poets ever to live. The touching and personnal nature of these poems is sure to strike a cord in you. Whitman's voice is the voice of America. These poems are simply wonderous.
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Summary: my fave
Review: this has to be one of the most amazing colections of poerty i have read. i never really was one for this kind of poetry, but after giving it a try i realized how amazing it is and how it can change you. at least give it a try.
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Summary: Outstanding Poems here
Review: This is one of the first books of poetry that I ever read. My Great Grand Father had this book, and it was very old looking to me when I first seen it 25 years ago, I was young then and didn't know that the book held a value. I don't know where it is now but I know the poems were really good and I enjoyed them immensely. Walt Whitman is a great writer, and I enjoy is poems.
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Summary: Walt is the Man!
Review: This stuff is out of the stratosphere, and I don't think that is too strong a statement. What a people-lover the man was! What passion! I plan to give my first-born son the middle name of Walt in his honor. And who cares if Bill gave a volume of Leaves of Grass to Monica? Share the joy baby.
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Summary: great thinker of his time
Review: WALT WHITMAN FOUND AWAY THRU WORDS TO EXPRESS LIFE,LOVE,AND FEELINGS MOST MORTAL MEN CAN NOT.TO LIVE FREE,LOVE FREE.WHEN I AM GONE LOOK FOR ME ON THE BOTTOM OF YOUR BOOT SOLE.HE WENT PAST OUR UNDERSTANDING OF LOVE AND DEATH.TO READ THIS BOOK ,IS TO GREATER UNDERSTAND OURSELVES,IN AWAY TODAY WE DON'T SEEM TO HAVE THE TIME TO SEE.
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Summary: Walt Whitman
Review: Walt Whitman is probably the greatest American poet of all time, criticised for his differences he was only recognised much later on, more appreciated in Europe than in his own country. This book is his finest work. The 1855 edition is probably the best out of all.
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Summary: Walt Whitman, A Cosmos
Review: Walt Whitman is the father of free verse and his main work, Leaves of Grass, is perhaps one of the greatest works by an American poet ever written.He was born on Long Island and grew up in Brooklyn. Being a native of Brooklyn myself I feel a deep connection to him. When I read his work I am instantly transported into his universe, a universe which is the domain of every man. For Walt Whitman was possibly the greatest democrat who ever lived. In his great poem, Song of Myself, his opening lines are: "I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." This is not only good old American horse sense, it's good science. For everything comes forth from that great source of life the sun, and none can be better for it, only different. Walt was a born visionary. And I surmise that he must have had quite a few mystical experiences before he set out to write his great poems. You can really get a sense of his mystical connection when you read poems like When I Heard The Learned Astronomer or even in Song of Myself when he proclaims: "There was never any more inception than there is now, nor any more youth or age than there is now; and will never be any more perfection than there is now, nor any more heaven or hell than there is now." Notice the emphasis on the word now. Mystics through the ages have said that God is beyond time, that God is the eternal presence, and that he exists in a timeless eternity sometimes referred to as the eternal now. I believe that's what Walt Whitman is telling us. I could go on and on singing the praises of Walt Whitman. His work is inexhaustable and profound and wise beyond measure. But there are innumerable books written about him. However, I believe to catch the essence of the man you have to read his poems. And if you let him in he will lead you to yourself and you will see the world through fresh eyes .... and you will see how the perennial grass covers only the outer layer of this our miraculous universe.
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Summary: Relevant for our time
Review: Walt Whitman's poetry, read in the context of the political and economic climate of the US today, gives us a perspective we seem to be unable to see. The purity of his writings on America might bridge the schisms we face as a country. Beautiful and powerful.
Sarah Pestana-New Jersey
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